# wcstof, wcstod, wcstold

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< c‎ | string‎ | wide

Defined in header ``<wchar.h>`` |  |
float wcstof( const wchar_t* restrict str, wchar_t** restrict str_end ); |  | (since C99)
double wcstod( const wchar_t* str, wchar_t** str_end ); |  | (since C95) (until C99)
double wcstod( const wchar_t* restrict str, wchar_t** restrict str_end ); |  | (since C99)
long double wcstold( const wchar_t* restrict str, wchar_t** restrict str_end ); |  | (since C99)

Interprets a floating-point value in a wide string pointed to by str.

Function discards any whitespace characters (as determined by iswspace) until first non-whitespace character is found. Then it takes as many characters as possible to form a valid floating-point representation and converts them to a floating-point value. The valid floating-point value can be one of the following:

- decimal floating-point expression. It consists of the following parts:

  - (optional) plus or minus sign
  - nonempty sequence of decimal digits optionally containing decimal-point character (as determined by the current C locale) (defines significand)
  - (optional) `e` or `E` followed with optional minus or plus sign and nonempty sequence of decimal digits (defines exponent to base 10)

hexadecimal floating-point expression. It consists of the following parts: (optional) plus or minus sign `0x` or `0X` nonempty sequence of hexadecimal digits optionally containing a decimal-point character (as determined by the current C locale) (defines significand) (optional) `p` or `P` followed with optional minus or plus sign and nonempty sequence of decimal digits (defines exponent to base 2) infinity expression. It consists of the following parts: (optional) plus or minus sign `INF` or `INFINITY` ignoring case not-a-number expression. It consists of the following parts: (optional) plus or minus sign `NAN` or `NAN(`char_sequence`)` ignoring case of the `NAN` part. char_sequence can only contain digits, Latin letters, and underscores. The result is a quiet NaN floating-point value. | (since C99)

- any other expression that may be accepted by the currently installed C locale

The functions sets the pointer pointed to by str_end to point to the wide character past the last character interpreted. If str_end is a null pointer, it is ignored.

### Parameters

str | - | pointer to the null-terminated wide string to be interpreted
str_end | - | pointer to a pointer to a wide character.

### Return value

Floating-point value corresponding to the contents of str on success. If the converted value falls out of range of corresponding return type, range error occurs and HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF or HUGE_VALL is returned. If no conversion can be performed, ​0​ is returned.

### Example

Run this code

    #include <errno.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <wchar.h>

    int main(void)
    {
        const wchar_t* p = L"111.11 -2.22 0X1.BC70A3D70A3D7P+6  1.18973e+4932zzz";
        printf("Parsing L\"%ls\":\n", p);
        wchar_t* end;
        for (double f = wcstod(p, &end); p != end; f = wcstod(p, &end))
        {
            printf("'%.*ls' -> ", (int)(end-p), p);
            p = end;
            if (errno == ERANGE){
                printf("range error, got ");
                errno = 0;
            }
            printf("%f\n", f);
        }
    }

Output:

    Parsing L"111.11 -2.22 0X1.BC70A3D70A3D7P+6  1.18973e+4932zzz":
    '111.11' -> 111.110000
    ' -2.22' -> -2.220000
    ' 0X1.BC70A3D70A3D7P+6' -> 111.110000
    '  1.18973e+4932' -> range error, got inf

### References

- C23 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2024):

  - 7.29.4.1.1 The wcstod, wcstof, and wcstold functions (p: TBD)

- C17 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2018):

  - 7.29.4.1.1 The wcstod, wcstof, and wcstold functions (p: TBD)

- C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

  - 7.29.4.1.1 The wcstod, wcstof, and wcstold functions (p: 426-428)

- C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

  - 7.24.4.1.1 The wcstod, wcstof, and wcstold functions (p: 372-374)

### See also

strtofstrtodstrtold (C99)(C99) | converts a byte string to a floating-point value (function)
C++ documentation for wcstof, wcstod, wcstold

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